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Qasr al-Shadiyakh

قصر الشاذياخ

Nishapur

The palace at Nishapur's gate that was the seat of rule for some of its kings, its building likened to Ghumdan itself — 'drink your crown's ease at al-Shadiyakh and leave Ghumdan to Yemen'; at its gate the poet Ali ibn al-Jahm was crucified 1.

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Nishapur

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A palace at the Nishapur gate of Khurasan, which was the seat of government for some of its rulers. 1

Its building was likened to Ghumdan, so much so that it was said in verse: "Drink, and may the crown be yours with pleasure, leaning on al-Shadhiyakh, and leave Ghumdan to Yemen." 1

On its gate, according to al-Umari's report, the poet Ali ibn al-Jahm was crucified. 1

The palace is near Nishapur.

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Nishapur
Related to
علي بن الجهم

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The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur· The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur· The Conquest of Naysabur· المتوكل على الله· علي بن الجهم· Nishapur

Sources

  1. Masalik al-absar fi mamalik al-amsar — al-Umari (1924 printing), p. 233
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The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur

The Bayhaqiyya of Nishapur, the earliest madrasa whose report is preserved in Islam: al-Maqrizi holds that the people of Nishapur were the first recorded as building a madrasa; al-Subki and al-Suyuti cited it to rebut al-Dhahabi's claim that Nizam al-Mulk founded the first madrasas, for it stood before Nizam al-Mulk was born.